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Old 02-11-11, 01:34 PM
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Default car has like a bounce feel to it

all my tires look good no leaks or anything havnt rotated or anything to see if that helps, but car feels like one wheel is off just a little bit from where it should be. but anything else i should worry about maybe control arms or something like that? my car is a 1995 sc300 125000 miles.
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What do you mean by bounce ? When your doing what ?
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Originally Posted by cards43am
all my tires look good no leaks or anything havnt rotated or anything to see if that helps, but car feels like one wheel is off just a little bit from where it should be. but anything else i should worry about maybe control arms or something like that? my car is a 1995 sc300 125000 miles.
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"bouncy" feelings, like a constant up and down motion over expansion joints on bridges. Are usually caused by blown shocks, not tires or LCA's
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Maybe that tire/wheel needs to be balanced.
Old 02-11-11, 03:19 PM
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sorry but its like it feels like a constant "limp" and it might be the shocks but can you hear them when your driving like a beat, like its just like thump thump thump. gah i dont know quite how to explain it better but it just seems like one of the wheels may be off balance like ^ stated above
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Take it to a shop for a suspension check most shops do it for free
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I would get the tires rebalanced and rotated first, if I remember correctly you just bought the car, right ? I would start there, its cheap and probably needs to be done anyway. If that doesn't get it struts may be in your future.
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It could be blown shocks. That usually causes a car to be bouncy.
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tire could also have a broken belt, that will cause vibration as well as the low speed thumping noise.
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thanks for all the help guys! im definitly bringing it to a shop and new tires are on my list!
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